Officers
The organisational chart can be downloaded here.
Rory W. Childers, MD
He attended Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1954 with combined Honours degrees in Medicine and Literature. After Residency in London and Dublin, he trained in Cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital under Edward F. Bland, thereafter at the West Roxbury VA Hospital under David Littmann.
From 1959 until 1963 RWC ran two cardiac catheterization laboratories (Royal City of Dublin and Harcourt Street Children's), and was Lecturer in Cardiac Physiology at Trinity College. In 1962 he spent 6 months with Jean Lenegre at the Boucicaut Hospital in Paris. Dr Childers conceived and ran the Irish end of the Harvard-sponsored Ireland-Boston Heart Study comparing risk factors, BP, nutrient profile, and the ECG of Irish small farmers in the west, with their brothers in Massachusetts.
In 1964 he joined the faculty at the University of Chicago, and has run the Heart Station ever since. His Teachers have included Hans Hecht, Richard Langendorf and Alfred Pick. In 1966 he spent 10 months with Gordon Moe in Utica NY, and a sabbatical year in Paris with Philippe Coumel. He has had the good fortune to have as colleagues, Harry Fozzard and the late Mort Arnsdorf.
Dr Childers has written over 80 papers on electrocardiography, lectured widely on ECG subjects to various bodies. He was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement award by the Electrophysiology Section at the University of California, San Francisco.
In the 70's, because of a developed interest in the poetry and lives of Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova. he studied the Russian language and published articles on both
of these poets. Childers has been a frequent speaker on Chicago Public Radio and has given public readings of Joyce on every Bloomsday for the past 19 years; he has lectured widely on Irish matters.
Robert Lux, PhD
Robert Lux, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Following his graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the University of Vermont, he moved to Utah where he was appointed to the faculty at the Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, a laboratory that focused on clinical and experimental studies of cardiac electrophysiology. His research interests include electrocardiographic mapping, ECG lead systems, and development of cardiac electrophysiologic measurements for assessing heart disease and arrhythmogenic risk. Although “retired” he remains active on research grants at the University and continues to review grants and manuscripts for the NIH and medical journals.
He has been an active ISCE participant since the “2nd Engineering Foundation” meeting (parent meeting of ISCE) in 1976 and chaired the 2003 meeting at Snowbird, Utah. He currently serves as ISCE’s secretary and publication chair.
Secretary
Mary Carey (nee Adams) earned her Master’s degree in Critical Care Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. At the onset of her Master’s studies, she worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Physiological Nursing launching a decade of submersion in research and the development of a lifetime mentor-mentee relationship with Dr. Barbara J Drew RN, PhD, a nursing pioneer in electrocardiography. After earning her Master’s degree, Dr. Carey was the Project Director for multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH), enrolling over a thousand hospital patients. These experiences led Dr. Carey to pursue doctoral studies and enjoy a career rich with colleagues immersed in science. After graduation, she returned home, to Buffalo NY to be closer to her family and joined the faculty at the University of Buffalo, School of Nursing.
Dr. Carey’s long term research goal is to improve ECG monitoring so that cardiovascular disease conditions can be better detected utilizing noninvasive procedures. Her most recent work focuses on identifying ECG predictors of sudden cardiac death and to apply these ECG predictors to populations at high risk for cardiac events. Among her 85 scientific publications, over 30 are original data-based, peer reviewed reports and she has earned National Institutes of Health grants (K23 & R21). Dr. Carey was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2009. She is married to Peter Carey, Chief of State University Police. They have a 4 year old daughter and have a home on Lake Erie.
Denis Drew, MD
Bio to come.
Conference chair & co-chair
- Wataru Shimizu
- Fabio Badilini
Board of Directors
Term ending 2011
- Charles Antzelevitch
- Robert Arzbaecher
- Barbara J. Drew
Term ending 2012
- Ljuba Bacharova
- John Madias
- Wojciech Zareba
Term ending 2013
- Konrad Brockmeier
- Stefan Nelwan
- Vladimir Shusterman
- Paul Kligfield